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Bloodgift Demon

Creature — Demon3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

The Phyrexian Arena that flies, with the dial turned outward. Black has always been the color that pays life for cards, and the upkeep-draw-for-a-life template is one of its oldest enchantment-rate engines. What this body does is collapse that engine into a five-mana 5/4 flier: a clock and a card-advantage spigot in the same slot, where the enchantment versions gave you only the advantage. The crucial wrinkle is that the trigger targets any player, not just its controller. That flexibility cuts two ways. Pointed at yourself, it is a steady draw at the cost of one life per turn, the kind of attrition that wins long games before the body ever connects. Pointed at an opponent, the life loss becomes a slow burn you can aim at a player low enough to die from it, turning a symmetrical-looking draw effect into a finisher that also happens to hand them a card. The 5/4 frame matters here: large enough to pressure the board and trade up, fragile enough that it dies to most removal and a fair amount of combat, so the engine rarely runs uninterrupted. That tension, a recurring advantage attached to a creature that politely asks to be killed, is what separates it from the enchantment versions it descends from.

Bloodgift Demon (j25)
J25 · #408rare
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Normal: $0.48
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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